Urban Setting Quotes

#1. There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods.

Rick Riordan

#2. All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and ... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.

William Forsythe

#3. The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long.

Grover Norquist

#4. When you're shiny, everyone wants to stand next to you.

Callum Keith Rennie

#5. Combining internal drive and determination with positive external support was key to my recovery.

Amy Rankin

#6. Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

Hassan Nasrallah

#7. I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!

William Blake

#8. Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#9. We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.

Emeril Lagasse

#10. Holy shit! Can we say unstable? Was I the only sane one around here? Well, I guess that really wasn't setting the standard very high. -Ember, Darkness Of Light

Stacey Marie Brown

#11. I was so tired that I was nothing but my body: the steady dull throb in my thighs, the tremor all along my arms, the thick grime of dust muffling my skin.

Naomi Novik

#12. For a flexible person, it is impossible not to reach his destination, because by using his ability to be flexible, he can easily define a nearer new destination!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

Philip Pullman

#14. People are starving, and this is their solution, he eventually said. They turn victims into criminals. They aim guns at people who can't shoot back.

Jhumpa Lahiri